linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] iomap: new code for 5.13-rc1

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Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:57:27 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>, Jia He <justin.he@....com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-xfs <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iomap: new code for 5.13-rc1

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 12:40:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We have '%pD' for printing a filename. It may not be perfect (by
> default it only prints one component, you can do "%pD4" to show up to
> four components), but it should "JustWork(tm)".
> 
> And if it doesn't, we should fix it.
> 
> So instead of having a kmalloc/kfree for the path buffer, I think you
> should have been able to just do
> 
>     pr_err("swapon: file %pD4 %s\n", isi->file, str);
> 
> and be done with it.

I'm aware of %pD, but 4 components here are not enough.  People
need to distinguish between xfstests runs and something real in
the system for these somewhat scary sounding messages.